Professional Activities
Short CV
See full CV for details.
since 2018: Full Professor for Cryptography and Privacy Engineering (ENCRYPTO) at the Department of Computer Science of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
2012-2018: Independent Research Group Leader and head of the Engineering Cryptographic Protocols Group (ENCRYPTO) at the Department of Computer Science of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
2011: Postdoctoral Researcher in the System Security Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
2008-2011: Doctoral Researcher (Dr.-Ing., equivalent to PhD) and Research Assistant at Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) in the System Security Lab at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
- PhD Thesis: "Engineering Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols - Advances in Design, Optimization, and Applications of Efficient Secure Function Evaluation" advised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and Prof. Dr. Benny Pinkas.
2007: Research Internship at Nokia Bell Labs, Security Solutions/Cryptographic Systems, Murray-Hill, NJ, USA on "Practical Secure Function Evaluation" (host: Vladimir Kolesnikov, PhD).
2003-2008: Diploma (Dipl.-Inf. Univ., equivalent to M.Sc.) in Computer Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. See MyWebsite@FAU for details.
- Master Thesis: "Practical Secure Function Evaluation" advised by Vladimir Kolesnikov, PhD and Prof. Dr. Volker Strehl.
- Bachelor Thesis: "Secure Task Migration and Interprocess Communication in Reconfigurable, Distributed, Embedded Systems" advised by Dr.-Ing. Dirk Koch and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Teich.
Research
See Complete List of Publications (most indexed at DBLP and Google Scholar).
I am doing research in privacy, cryptographic protocols, applied cryptography, and computer security, including:
- Privacy-Preserving Protocols
- Secure Computation Protocols
- Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols (see ABY, TASTY)
- Secure Evaluation of (Semi-)Private Functions, Universal Circuits (see UC, FairplayPF, FairplaySPF)
- Function Representations and Minimization (Circuits, Neural Networks, Branching Programs)
- Compilers for Cryptographic Protocols
- Secure Two-Party Computation (see ABY, TASTY, FairplayPF, FairplaySPF)
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge (see ZKC)
- Hardware-Assisted Cryptographic Protocols
- Cloud Computing Security (see AMID)
The following word clouds are generated from the titles of my publications and give an overview on my research topics and where we have published our results.
For my collaborations, see List of Coauthors. My Erdös Number equals 4; the path is T. Schneider - M. Fischlin - S. Goldwasser - L. Lovasz - P. Erdös.
Projects
I am involved in the following projects.
Upcoming Projects
since 2020: ERC Starting Grant Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet (PSOTI) funded by ERC
Running Projects
since 2019: Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users funded by DFG
since 2015: National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity CRISP funded by BMBF & HMWK
since 2014: Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments (CROSSING) funded by DFG
Finished Projects
2013-2016: Privacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud (PRACTICE) funded by EU FP7
2012-2016: Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) funded by LOEWE
2012-2015: European Center for Security and Privacy by Design (EC SPRIDE) funded by BMBF
2011: Trustworthy Clouds (TClouds) funded by EU FP7
2008-2013: European Network of Excellence in Cryptology (ECRYPT II) funded by EU FP7
2008-2010: Computer Aided Cryptography Engineering (CACE) funded by EU FP7
2007-2009: Signal Processing in the EncryptEd Domain (SPEED) funded by EU FP6
Honors & Awards
See full CV for details.
2019: ERC Starting Grant
2016: Finalist 6. Deutscher IT-Sicherheitspreis 2016. Our submission "Praktikable Private Schnittmengenberechnung" was among the 11 finalists selected from 45 submissions.
2012: Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program Award
2012: Science Award in Data Protection and Data Security of the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD)
2011: Finalist CAST PhD Award IT Security
2008-2011: Ruhr-University Graduate Research School Fellow
2008: Finalist CAST BSc Award IT Security
2008: ASQF Sponsorship Award for excellent studies
2007-2008: Leonardo-Kolleg Fellow at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2007: Best B.Sc. (Vordiplom) at Department of Computer Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2004-2008: German National Academic Foundation Scholar (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2003-2008: Bavarian Elite Program Scholar (BayBFG)
2003: Finalist and Laureate of 21. German Informatics Contest (Bundeswettbewerb Informatik)